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Princess Catharina-Amalia was born at 17:01 CET in the Bronovo Hospital in The Hague. After her birth was made public, 101 salute shots were fired at four places in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

On 12 June 2004, she was baptised by Reverend Carel ter Linden in the Grote, or St. Jacob's, Church in The Hague. Her godparents are her paternal uncle, Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands, Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, Marc ter Haar (a friend of her father's), Herman-Diederik Tjeenk Willink (Vice-president of the Council of State), Samantha van Welderen, Baroness Rengers-Deane (a friend of her mother's), and her maternal uncle, Martín Zorreguieta.

She is second in the line of succession to the Dutch throne, and because the crown of the Netherlands devolves upon the eldest child regardless of sex, she will not be replaced in the line of succession by any future son of her father. So, providing her father and grandmother, the Queen, predecease her or abdicate and she does not marry without permission of Parliament, she will become Queen regnant of the Netherlands.

Following the tradition, Princess Catharina-Amalia is styled as "The Hereditary Princess of Orange" (In Dutch: De Erfprinses van Oranje); she will become the first Princess of Orange in her own right when her father accedes to the throne.